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WHAT IS CIVILIZATION, LIBERTY AND THE 
PUBLIC SCHOOL MAKING OF US f 



Thoughts for Every Father and Mother 
of an American-Born Boy or Girl. 



M^ritten by 



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Of What Is Uncle Sam TliiukiiiR ? 



BY 



CORLIES MERRITT. 



PORTLAND, OREGON, 

Peaslee Bros., Printer; 

1893. 




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COPYRIOHT, 1893, 
BY 

coRi^iKs mp:rritt. 



TO THE READERS. 



The motive prompting the writer to offer 
the contents of this little book is to solicit on 
the part of its readers their attention to our 
political, social, mental, moral and physical 
conditions, of the greatest importance to us as 
a race of human beings, fortunate enough to 
be in existence in America, where and when 
it is possible, by thorough understanding and 
united action, to attain a condition of inde- 
pendence, peace, progress and prosperity, the 
inherited right of every courageous and manly 
American, who is devoted to the principles 
of FREEDOM, JUSTICE and the equality of 
^ MAN, embodied in our American Declar- 



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ation of Independence and Constitution and 
B3'-Ivaws, which have brought within the 

territory of our Union every intelligent lover 

of these principles, who are here bidding 

defiance to the entire world, should it dispute 

America's merited position as the peer of all 

nations in strength, courage and intellect. 

CORLIES MKRRITT. 
Portland, Ore., 1893. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Acknowledged inability of the 
leaders and political organs of both the Demo- 
cratic and Republican parties throughout the 
land to account at once for the announced an- 
nihilation of one and the complete victory of 
the other in the election of the President of 
the United States, to assume the responsibility 
of office on the fourth day of March, A.D., 
1893, turned the attention of the writer to the 
national issue, and a perusal of a number of 
the leading newspapers, awakening his mind 



6 OF WHAT IS 

to the importance of the existing conditions of 
the American family, politically, socially, 
mentally, morally and ph^^sically. 

Looking to the matters pertaining to the 
welfare of the American, as an American, we 
will take into consideration the word Ameri- 
can and its definition, as given by Webster : 

AflERICAN — A native of America ; originally ap- 
plied to aboriginal inhabitants, but 
now applied to the descendants of 
Europeans born in America ; and in a 
restricted sense to the inhabitants of 
the United States. 

Of the utmost importance to the Ameri- 
can is the conimitmenl to memory of the 
Declaration of Independence and the Consti- 
tution and By-Laws governing this nation, 
which, to-day, stands alone on the principles 

of JUSTICE, LIBERTY and EQUALITY OF MAN. 

In order to sustain these principles and 
our glorious nation we must show our zeal for 



UNCLE SAM THINKING t ^ 

our country by exercising our best judgment, 
founded upon the careful study of Ameri- 
canism, in voting for those to be placed in 
executive power in whom we have confidence. 
Those who will carry out their convictions as 
honest Americans, regardless of party ism or 
religious creed. 

In the mind of ever}^ unprejudiced 
American to-day is the feeling that the down- 
fall of the Republican party can be attributed 
to the boodlers, h)^pocrites and demagogues, 
whose onl}' motives have been their own ava- 
riciousness and self-consideration. 

We must awake to the importance of the 
example just set by the nation in demon- 
strating what reformations are possible here 
in this civilized and intelligent America, re- 
sponding to the honest impulse of an Ameri- 
can and down every political faction tending 
to dishonor its principles of right, showing its 



8 OF WHA T IS 

leaders that the educated American is alive to 
their shortcomings. 

Now is the time when we must strengthen 
our band of unionism and drive from our free 
soil every traitor to our cause and country. 

With the installation of this new party 
we must have action taken on matters which 
are vital to our interests right here in America. 
Let us make a careful review of the progress 
of the past century of freedom and independ- 
ence, detect the evils that have accrued, their 
cause and their remedy. We cannot be 
thoughtless, careless or indifferent regarding 
our destiny. We must review and reorganize 
our American ranks. Our motto must be, 
"United we stand, divided we fall!" Four 
years time will determine whether we shall 
pool issues with the present incumbents, the 
Democratic party, or follow the example of 

last election day. 

The establishing- of measures and success 



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UNCLE SAM THINKING? 9 

of our efforts to sustain the principles of Ameri- 
canism must be directed on a fair, square, 
"open and above board" basis. No secret 
conventions ; no movements in the dark. 
Whenever we discover an unfair trick, re- 
sorted to by any political party, or its repre- 
sentative, we must unite in a public condem- 
nation, regardless of the consequence. 

Following a thorough understanding of 
the principles of this American government 
we must take into consideration the vast im- 
portance of our national territory and its un- 
limited resources, which means to us not only 
our homes and pursuits of peace and plent}', 
but the support and protection of our descend- 
ants, whom, through our vigilance and under- 
standing, can be raised be3^ond the possibility 
of the trials, anxieties and disturbances iu 
existence to-day. 

With tlie freedom of America began the 



lo OF WHAT IS 

wonderful development of ingenuity in me- 
chanical arts, which, to-day, has placed us far 
in advance of all other nations combined. 
Only a few weeks association with us and our 
appliances make of all foreigners practical 
and valuable mechanics in all departments of 
of our industries, reg-ardlCvSS of their lack of 
intelligence or education. 

To continue this wonderful progress and 
reach the highest standard of Americanism 
the one possible medium is our thoroughly 
American institution, 

TIIK PUBLIC SCHOOL, 

From which alone each development is placed 
upon this field of action equally equipped for 
the maintenance of our nation. The import- 
ant feature of this institution is that every 
child is educated to our one national recogni- 
tion of social equality, which is the essential 
to inseparable unionism. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING i h 



CHAPTER II. 



We often wonder why it is that foreign- 
ers come to this country, without the least 
conception of our language, our social or com- 
mercial customs, and in a few years acquire a 
competence, while so many of our native-born 
citizens, educated and thoroughly familiar with 
the laws governing our commercial interests, 
as well as political positions, drag out such a 
miserable existence, and go to their graves 
ending an unsuccessful life. 

The secret of the success of these foreign- 
born people in America is the thorough disci- 
pline of the powers ruling them in their own 



12 OF WHAT IS 

countries, such as the church, schools and 
military subordination. 

Here the children born of these same 
patient, industrious and successful foreign- 
American citizens very often prove re factory, 
leading lives of lawlessness and idleness. 

Why is it so ? 

Without doubt the absence of the control 
of the foreign powers, which divest the parent 
of such responsibility, and the laxity of our 
public school discipline, together with our 
charitable as well as mistaken consideration 
for what is termed ' ' weakness of human 
nature," is responsible for the majority of 
these thriftless American citizens. 

Take into consideration the rapidly in- 
creasing tendency of our boys and girls to 
*' hoodlumism," both in the cities and country. 

It is in accordance with our American 
spirit of independence, liberty and self-esteem 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 13 

that our boys and girls should develop into 
fun-loving, active and even mischievous 
"young Americas." But when this same 
freedom tends to develop insubordination, 
then the necessity of wielding the lash of 
subordination must not be questioned. 

At home, where the parents should be 
competent to control and discipline their 
children, should the youth of our land be 
taught to expect the punishment merited by 
their misdemeanor. 

When such discipline has been neglected 
until the schoolroom is reached, then it should 
be meted out without a question from the 
parents, or the result will be that the laws of 
our land will necessarily be compelled to as- 
sume this responsibility, which means the 
breaking of the spirit of developed man and 
womanhood, thus making unfortunate crimi- 



14 OF WHAT IS 

iials and burdens of those who should be 
peaceable and progressive co-workers. 

Our American idea being that our public 
school S3'stem is the one assured medium 
through which the discordant elements of 
society are to be overcome, we must see that 
no interference with the instructors or work- 
ings of that institution is tolerated. 

It must be the duty of our directors to see 
that those to whom is assigned the responsi- 
bilit}^ of shaping the destiny of our American 
youth are selected on the merits of their quali- 
fication for this important duty. These same 
instructors should not only be the highest 
intellectual development of our different 
branches of instruction, but just as important 

is the neceSvSity of their being competent to 

judge the nature of their charges and control 

them in accordance with the requirements of 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? I5 

those natures. These professors must also be 
in personal appearance and manners ex- 
amples of the dignity and pride of our race, 
instilling the neccessity of cleanliness and 
well-bearing with their pupils. 

The writer, in reviewing his varied life 
at school, recalls the apparent indifference of 
the majority of his instructors with regard to 
his future destiny. Seemingly, those most 
proficient in learning were least attentive to 
child-like impulses, and they simply devoted 
such time to their routine work as was neces- 
sary to drawing their stipulated salary. When 
the regular schoolroom work was at an end 
the teacher's association with the pupils was, 
likewise, at an end. leaving the boys and girls 
to seek their own recreation and source of 
learning, such as their impulses of nature 
would dictate. Consequently the boys wou d 
turn to associations that would naturally 



i6 OF WHAT IS 

excite their 3^outhful passions, such as the 
saloon, other improper resorts, and older 
companions, who willingl}^ develop those 
devastating destroyers of mental, moral and 
ph^^sical manhood, never cautioning these 
simple and honest minds of the disastrous 
results. 

How much better it would be for these 
experienced teachers to be the associate com- 
panions of these young natures outside of the 
schoolroom, furnishing them with sufficient 
excitement for a realization of its true nature, 
and educating them to the control of such 
immoderate desires as are positively making 
inroads into the morals of a vast number of 
our school children. 

To the writer there seems to be some- 
thing radically wrong about the selection of 
our public school teachers, and the incentive 



UNCLE SAM THINKINGf 17 

for them to meet the requirements of their 
position. 

Instead of a young, struggling and am- 
bitious hoy or girl, just out of college, without 
natural adaptation or other motive for teach- 
ing than just to earn a small salary to " tide 
them over' ' until a better paid and more agree- 
able pursuit presents itself, being installed in 
the position of teacher in the public schools, 
this position should be made one that would 
secure for it a man or woman of proper breadth 
of mind, force, cultivation and learning nec- 
essary for the maintenance of themselves and 
those dependent upon them during their life- 
time, or until such a time as their qualifica- 
tions are unimpaired, and then when the 
period of their practical usefulness is at an 
end a pension for their declining years will be 
unanimously voted them by the intelligent 
and appreciative American nation, whose unity 
and strength is due to their intelligent efforts. 



i8 OF WHAT IS 



CHAPTER III. 



From time to time threatening clouds of 
revolution overhang this prosperous country 
of ours, and their origin can be traced direct 
to the organization of institutions not in ac- 
cord with the requirements of our national 
principles ; institutions that are breeding a 
disastrous condition of competition, where 
there should be co-operation to strengthen 
this army of true Americans. 

As a race founded by extending to each 
other the hand of fraternal brotherhood, we 
must unite in our determination to eradicate 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 19 

from our land every disturbing influence which 
will tend to sever the bond of national unity 
and social equality. 

With the same fearlessness of our fore- 
fathers, prompted \>y their love for this country 
and the maintenance of our American institu- 
tions, for which they laid down their lives, we 
mUvSt exert our vigilance in detecting and 
banishing every foe to our American cause. 
Detect the creeds consistent and persistent in 
their organization to consume the free and 
independent equality of the American, and 
banish them to the birthplace of their section 
alism. Allow no foreigner or foreign-born 
organization our protection that comes to us 
with an intention of establishing only their 
own un-American clique, whose religion and 
ambition is other than 



20 OF WHAT IS 

ASSIMILATION WITH OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE. 

We must understand that the principles 
of our American government are the out- 
growth of the experiences of other forms of 
government for ages past, and that our prog- 
ress, enlightenment and prosperity is proof of 
the best results to mankind, as well as this 
world of our own. 

It is well that America has been the 
haven of refuge that it has for the oppressed 
human beings of other nations, born in igno- 
rance and poverty and driven hence under the 
cruel lash of tyranny. To-day millions of 
them are shouting, in broken English, "Glory 

to America, its people and its free institu- 
tions !" willing to respond with their life- 
blood to maintain it, and a like condition for 
their children, who are to succeed them. 

Raised here in America our appreciation 



UNCLE SAM THINKIXG? 21 

of our freedom, independence and opportuni- 
ties sinks into utter insignificance compared 
with that of the down -trodden, ignorant and 
uneducated foreigner, who lives to-day in our 
midst to see his son a well-educated, well- 
appearing specimen of American manhood, 
recognized as a leader in sustaining our laws 
and our country ; and his daughter the bright, 
intelligent, well-formed specimen of what our 
American women should be. Too well do 
these fathers and mothers know that had their 
children's destiny been their condition in the 
" old country " it would have meant for them 
a poverty-stricken struggle of blind ignorance 
and hopelessness, from which death alone 
would be their welcomed release. 

Is it to be wondered that such a foreign- 
American, in his human love for his unfortu- 
nate relatives, bends his every effort to bring 
them to this country ? 



2a OF WHAT IS 



CHAPTER IV. 



Now that this land of ours has reached 
that period, when for its best interests the 
supply of foreign immigrants has over- 
reached the demand, comes the important 
consideration of 

TOTAL EXCLUSION. 

Our first American duty is to protect our- 
selves. To-day every avenue of industry re- 
quiring the brawn and muscle of foreign 
countries is crowded to overflowing. In 
justice to ourselves, as native-born Americans, 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 23 

as well as to those from foreign lands already 
here, these floodgates must be closed and our 
careful attention turned to the conditions as 
they exist here, supporting and encouraging 
every element loyal to our cause and country, 
and descerning and driving from us every in- 
fluence not in harmou}^ with us. 

To thoroughly Americanize this great na- 
tion, made up of the various-speaking races, 
the one great essential is education, as taught 
in our public schools, enforced upon every soul 
acknowledging allegiance to our form of gov- 
ernment. This action alone means the peace, 
' progress and prosperity of America's future, 
and the elevation of the American to the 
noblest specimens of independent man and 
womanhood. 

This ideal American is to be found any 
day on our thoroughfares. It is the man or 
woman, neat in appearance, educated to a de- 



24 OF WHAT IS 

gree possible with every American-born boy 
or girl, through the medium of our public 
schools, public libraries and our almost gra- 
tuitous distribution of literature. One imbued 
with the proper consideration for every mem- 
ber of the human family. One who extends 
to all others a cordial greeting and the hand of 
a brother, remembering that it is possible at 
all times, by kindness and proper encourage- 
ment, to elevate another to a clean and desir- 
able position in society, as well as to a condi- 
tion of progress and prosperity. It is one 
who looks not only to the outward appearance 
of a person, but one who acknowledges an- 
other as a being endowed by nature with the 
same deserving faculties as themselves. Hav- 
ing, also, a kind consideration for tlie parents 
of others, regardless of their unfortunate con- 
dition or their nationality ; realizing that in 
other countries, under other forms of govern- 



UXCLE SAM THINKING? 25 

ment, where the privileg-e of education is de- 
nied, and the equality of mankind is not 
acknowledged ; where each member of the 
family, regardless of sex, is driven by desti- 
tution and tyranny into a field of ceaseless 
drudgery, which is responsible for their bent 
and undeveloped figures, their haggard and 
expressionless faces and their utter disregard 
of pensonal appearance ; also bearing in mind 
that these same beings are the mothers and 
fathers of your school companions, who are 
with you, hand in hand, leading and founding 

a nation whose intelligence and personal ap- 
pearance excites the envy of the entire world. 
What higher reward can be bestowed on 
a parent, subjected to the conditions and pri- 
vations of other countries, as cited, than to 
rear a child to our American standard of in- 
telligence, descency and progressive citizen- 



26 OF WHAT IS 

ship, valuable to society and our land of 
freedom ? 

Our public school education and associa- 
tion has solved the question of race-differ- 
ences mentally, demonstrating the fact that 
the offspring of any human race can be de- 
veloped into an intelligent and valuable 
member of our society. Therefore, within 
the period of another generation, it is possible 
and probable that the United States will be 
populated with a distinct class of American 
people, superior ph3'sicall5^ and intellectually 
to an3^ nation on earth, everything foreign 
having been completely absorbed through re- 
striction and our system of schooling. To 
make it so requires only the honest efforts of 
our American leaders and instructors together 
with the united efforts of our fellow citizens. 

When our Republican form of govern- 
ment accomplishes this end, then will other 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 27 

nations pattern after us, which means ' ' peace 
on earth and good will toward all men." 

With equal education, the development 
of science, industry and co-operation will 
surel}^ come to each of us our share of the 
products of our labor, insuring us against the 
fear of want, which is now the horrid " night- 
mare," so dicouraging to many of us in 
America. Then will the peaceful pursuits 
of industry be undisturbed by discontent and 
discord, leading to disorder and "strikes." 

The deplorable state of selfishness and 

unfair dealing, in existence to-day, is purely 

the result of our system of competition, thor- 
oughly antagonistic to our American princi- 
ples, and unnatural, as there is not a person 
on the face of the earth who cannot be 
prompted to generous impulses by fair and 
considerate treatment. 

In foreign countries millions upon mil- 
lions of unfortunate human beings, ignorant, 



28 OF WHAT IS 

destitute, wretched and valueless, have been 
born to their condition, and are living a life of 

utter hopelessness, the victims of the accursed 

greed of other human sects, who are protected 

through powers sustaining their own selfish 

forms of government. 

Every born victim to the above condi- 
tions, coming to this glorious land of freedom 
and equalit)^ rescued as he is, w^ell knows the 
meaning of the above, and the fate of those 
left behind. It is his duty, combined with 
ev^ery soul in America, lo^-al to out "Stars 
and Stripes," to destroy every faction tending 
to introduce such a condition for any living 
being on American soil. 

Just as important is the necessity of 
checking the development of slave-like de- 
pendence in America as was the blotting out 
of the actual existence of slaverj^ in the South, 
the result of which cost us the lives of our 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 29 

forefathers, Americans by birth, education 
and color. The sacrifice of those American 
lives is, in a great measure, responsible for 
our past demand for foreign laborers. In 
their stead we would now have young educa- 
ted Americans, their sons and daughters, 
working in unity, thereby raising the dignity 
of industrious work to a level with our Ameri- 
can progress. 

To overcome the disastrous consequence 
of that terrible destruction of a half-million 
lives of those so necessary to the founding of 
an American majority it will cost us the life- 
time of our present generation to co-operate, 
compete, associate with and educate an im- 
portation of foreign substitutes, of every 
country on earth and ever}- class, who have 
brought with them organizations menacing 
our peace and welfare as a nation, and which 
will remain with us until every member of 



30 OF WHAT IS 

such orders return to the land of their origin, 
or are finally summoned b)^ that enevitable 
law of nature, death. 

Until we have an exclusive race, speak- 
ing, reading and writing our purely American 
English, it will be impossible for us to have a 
united understanding as lo our national inter- 
ests and welfare, which will end forever the 
discordant elements, causing each one of us 
in America anxiet}^ and distrust. 

It is an undeniable fact that the violators 
of the laws of our country and societ}^ are, in 
a vast majority, a class of men and women 
who are thoroughly ignorant of a proper men- 
tal and moral training. Consequently, when 
we are, as a race, educated to our American 
standard of intelligence then we will witness 
the decadence of the jails, penitentiaries, in- 
sane asylums, poorhouses and charitable in- 
stitutions, which, to-day, blot the fair surface 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 31 

of our land and bring the blush of shame to 
every person in America who has her inter- 
est at heart. 

When, through our American schooling, 
we can place ourselves on a plain of equal 
brotherhood then, instead of our showing no 
recognition, condescending not so much as a 
civil courtesy to our fellowman, as is now cus- 
tomary, we will not only extend to each other 
civil recognition, but that civility will em- 
brace a feeling of love and interest that will 
restore the human family to a confidence and 
consideration, one for another, lasting until 
the end of time. 

As intelligent Americans, do not surren- 
der to the conviction that such a condition of 
the American family cannot be, but appeal to 
to your own nature, study its desires, and ex- 
tend your hand to those who are and can be 
brought into sympathy with your feelings of 



32 OF WHAT IS 

equal consideration. Let us all unite in our 
efforts to bring about this reformation, and 
just as sure as we have developed the tele- 
graph to signal ever}" member of our Union 
to its cause on an instant's notice, just as sure 
will we all respond to reform or overthrow 
any condition or institution not loyal to us. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 33 



CHAPTER V. 



To-day, in this country, foundations are 
being laid for the establishment of antagonistic 
conditions of societ}^ which positively mean, 
eventually, the destruction of our American 
policy and our nation. Chief of the deserting 
factions is what is termed 

"AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY." 

This tendency, born of foreign parentage, 
apeing foreign manners and customs, is, in 
every sense of the word, un-American, and 



34 OF WHAT IS 

calls from every honest, courageous, inde- 
pendent and manly American a feeling of 
pity and scorn. If America's wealth must 
distinguish itself, it should adopt manners as 
become the strength and independence of our 
cosmopolitan race, and not pattern after the 
snobbish elements of countries where our 
parents were denied the consideration of 
equality and progress. We must snap these 
chains binding those controling our wealth to 
factions which will, sooner or later, lose all 

the original manhood of the genuine Ameri- 
can and place them in the pathway of their 

fellowmen who are marching steadily on to 
the exalted throne of human superiority, 

there to look back on the hapless remains of 
those too weak to bear their American stand- 
ard and arms. We must arouse ourelves to 
the importance of this suicidal tendency. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 35 

The more fortunate members of our society 
must realize that favorable circumstances have 
alone raised them to their condition of afflu- 
ence, and that their own protection, support 
and welfare in this country is entirely depend- 
ent upon the welfare of the less fortunate 
members of our American famil}^ 

We must study carefully' the motive of 
every organization in this country and support 
it only so long as it promotes the best interests 
of our own people. No contending factions 
should be allow^ed to develop, as they dis- 
turb the community's peace, destroy the con- 
dition of confidence, one in another, that is 
positively necessarj^ to the realization of a con- 
dition of peace, protection and plenty while 
we are on earth and the perpetuation of a like 
condition for those who are to follow us. 
Our consideration should be the means of the 
greatest importance to the greatest number. 



36 OF WHAT IS 

An important consideration with the 
American people should be the question of 
private institutions and secret organizations 
competing with our public institutions. 

What will be the result of sectarian and 
private school competing with our public 
ones? 

It means class distinction and competi- 
tion, and competition means strife, which 
leads to conflict and conflict breaks our Ameri- 
can ranks. 

It is just as practical to add to our public 
schools the departments necessary for our 

highest attainment as it is to establish and 
perpetuate a private institution in America, 
thereby bridging the chasm widening be- 
tween these different developments. 

Our American aim should be to unite 
factions and not create them, which would 



UNCLE SAM THINKINGS 37 

be the means of righting the present condition 
of selfishness and dishonor 

Ever}^ person in America well knows that 
the competition of our great political parties 
has been the means of installing into most of 
the executive positions of our country a class 
of unscrupulous men, ambitious for the spoils 
of office only. These un-American traitors are 
the treacherous authors of all our national 
disturbances, the violators of our honest trust 
and confidence. Such traitors deserve what 
the}^ seldom get when detected, the wrath of 
steadfast and loyal Americans — their merciless 
condemnation and extermination. In our 
charitable American mood we are criminally- 
careless about the honest integrity of our 
political officers. Must we allow their care- 
lessness and their duplicity to return us to that 
condition of oppression and revolution from 
which we have been so nobly rescued ? Let 



38 OF WHAT IS 

us all unite in determining that it must and 
shall not be. We must despise and mete out 
to these traitors their just dues. Bear in 
mind during the desperate period of warfare 
the merited fate of the traitor. To-day it is 
of more consequence to sustain our condition 
of peace and well-being. American citizens, 
just as sure as we violate the laws of honor 
just as sure will we suffer the consequence of 
dishonor. 

Do not give up in discouragement, but 
come to the front and unite in establishing a 
steadfast honor throughout our land, and es- 
pecially between the members of our own class, 
that the wealth and power of the entire crea- 
tion cannot shatter. Tolerate nothing un- 
fair. Begin with honor at the cradle and 
carry it to the grave. 

How quick our natural instinct rebels and 
loathes an unfair advantage. Heed its warn- 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 39 

ing and make a public example of every mis- 
representation, and the outcome will be a res- 
toration of confidence, founded on a basis of 
honesty. Then will we all feel a condition of 
safety, encouraging us in our efforts to become 
and live our lives in America as Americans 
are entitled. 

Undeniable is the fact that the majority 
of our criminals, confined within the prison 
walls, are those of foreign birth and foreign 
parentage. 

In accordance with the laws of American 
society and the laws of human nature it could 
not be otherwise. In the first place, the pos- 
sibility of being a law-abiding citizen is to be 
educated to the comprehension of the laws. 
The law^s of nature are understood through the 
intuition of nature, but the laws of man are 
understood only through the instruction of 
man. 



40 OF WHAT IS 

Most of the foreigners admitted and en- 
couraged to come to this country by us arrive 
here without even the least conception of our 
language, our habits or our requirements. In 
their own country the blessings of freedom, 
civilization and humane treatment have never 
been identified with their existence. In their 
unfortunate condition they mereh' fall victims 
to their lack of understanding. And we, as an 
enlightened people, are alone responsible for 
these unfortunates being retained within the 
prison walls of our free and independent land, 
without a pOvSsiblity of redemption. 

Greater wisdom and a higher degree of 
humane feeling would be shown by us in 
adopting, instead of confinement in our 
prisons, the method now in vogue in England 
of the 

TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM, 

Through which over one hundred organiza- 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 41 

tions, under the name of ** Discharged Prison- 
ers' Aid Societies of Great Britain," have 
shipped to this land of America thousands of 
convicts annually, and thus return these dis- 
turbers of our American peace to the land 
from which they came. 

" Is it possible that the intelligent executors 
of our nation cannot solve these problems, 
which are agitating our country, and, like 
cancers, are gnawing into the vitals of its 
important existence ? Or is it that they are 
betraying the trust confided to them by us as 
a people, who would respond without hesita- 
tion with our lives to sustain these same 
servants in the positions of guardianship over 
our welfare ? 



42 O^ WHAT IS 



CHAPTER VI. 



With the advent of total restriction of 
foreign immigration, through which we hav^e 
been vSupplied with our great mass of unskilled 
labor, who are opening up our vast industries 
and natural resources, comes the perplexing 
question of where we shall find our suppl}^ of 
the laboring element to succeed this foreign 
class ? 

To-day it is commonly observed that the 
Americans who are willing to devote them- 
selves to the rough, hard work of what is 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 43 

termed the laboring classes are on the decrease 
in numbers, as their ambition is stirred by 
education. Such being the existing condition 
we must determine the cause. 

Is it the American pride, or the develop- 
ment of indolence on the part of our Ameri- 
can-born youth, as some claim? Or, on the 
other hand, is it not the abuse of the pursuits 
of rough, manual labor that has buried it be- 
neath the dignity of our free and enlightened 
people ? 

The contract system, which has placed 
in these honest vocations in America the vile, 
disgusting and un-American Chinese and like 
aliens, without responsibility or respect, and 
at wages insufficient to the descent support of 
of a representative of America, who is ex- 
pected to assume the responsibility of a family 
and patronize American institutions and 
products, pay taxes and respond with their 



44 OF WHAT IS 

lives and property to defend this country, 
their home of freedom, is alone responsible 
for the abandonment of nature's most peaceful 
pursuits by the nature-loving and intelligent 
workmen of American education. 

When American intelligence demands 
and executes a reformation, then will American 
brawn and muscle, stregthened by intelligence 
and education, respond to the requirements of 
American toil Then will the millions, w^ho 
are to-day caking out a meagre existence in 
this land of abundance by means of sharp 
practice, filling the positions of '' middle 
men," and preying upon these ignorant, 
labor-degrading, lawless and dependant slaves, 
imported from other countries through the 
efforts of un-American corporations and 
monied powders, will these same American 
bo3's and girls respond to their American- 
taught principles of honest labor for honest 



UNCLE SAM THIN KING f 45 

dollars, which will lift them from their pres- 
ent condition of uncertain support and anxiety, 
encouraging them to marry and become the 
strength of our nation. 

When, to-day, an advocate of American 
rights fails to listen to the voice oi American 
labor when it pleads for the fruits of its labor, 
its protection and elevation, then it is destroy- 
ing our America through its maliciousness or 
ignorance of the simple laws of our class of 
humanity, laid down by our forefathers. 

The compensation for labor in America 
must meet the requirements of an American, 
necessary for him to support himself, and also 
support and educate those whom this gov- 
ernment entrusts to his dependence, as be- 
comes an intelligent, progressive and law- 
abiding citizen. His competitors in the field 
of labor must be those of like condition. 
Competition with foreign-paid labor must not 



46 OF WHAT IS 

be countenanced by the American people, as it 
will surely develop a like condition of misery, 
want, ignorance, degredation and neglect in 
America as exists in foreign countries. 

When we adopt as a nation an American 
standard of wages for labor, then will these 
same foreign-imported and devastating crea- 
tures come up to this standard, every one of 
them, and glory in their own and our progress. 

It is the employers who must install this 
reformed condition — the capital of America. 

It is neceSvSary that we have a national 
understanding and co-operation ; and our 
national medium of keeping labor and capital 
united in harmony and understanding is our 

AMERICAN PRESS, 

Throbbing with the same pulsations of justice. 
Many ills of our social and political con- 
dition are due to the violation of the laws of 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 47 

justice by the greed of the monopolists of this 
country. 

In America organized trusts, aggregating 
billions of dollars, are in existence, controling 
the commodities which are positively neces- 
sary to sustaining our lives and the develop- 
ment and progress of our country. These 
monopolists realize royal dividends, making 
of them millionaires, while many other mem- 
bers of society, equally deserving, are being 
denied these same necessities of life 

As Americans we must recognize in these 

trusts and combinations, which are designed 

to enable capital to get more than its just share 

of the joint products of capital and labor, the 

enemy to our best welfare, and attend to the 

enforcement of the laws made to prevent and 

control them. 

A combination of capital, aiming to either 

reduce the cost or furnish a higher grade of 



48 OF WHAT IS 

commodities to the consumer, is deserving of 
support, as thereby the best interests of the 
masses are served, in contrast to the combi- 
nation or trust organized to increase the cost 
or decrease the quality. 

The past few years in America has de- 
veloped what is termed the "department 
stores," institutions carrying large quantities 
of the best makes of various classes of goods. 
The increase in numbers and patronage of 
these bazars prove conclusivelj^ that they are 
meeting the favor of the American people. 

Such being the fact we must concede the anni- 
hilation of the small stores carrying special 
lines of goods, which will necessarily drive an 
army of our shrewdest citizens into other 
pursuits. To meet this emergency suggests 
the importance of placeing our field of manual 
labor and our mechanical departments on a 
plain of recognition suitable to the intelli- 
gence of this class of our American citizens. 



UNCLE SAM THINKIXGf 49 

In the study of the qiistions of manual 
labor, mechanical skill and manufacturing 
industries the intelligence of America must 
thoroughly realize the importance of placing 
their products bej^ond the reach of foreign 
competition by equaling or exceling these 
importations. 

Then comes the consideration of the 
number of hours of labor best suited to the 
preservation of the mental and physical con- 
dition of our people, thereby encouraging 
contentment in such a pursuit of labor, mak- 
ing of our working people permanent and 
accumulating citizens, instead of shifting 
discontents. 



50 OF WHAT IS 



CHAPTER VII, 



A VERY serious question with our nation, 
which threatens our future and disturbs our 
present condition of peace, is intemperance. 

With the growth of society, increase of 
commerce and advancement of civilization the 
drinking of intoxicating liquors has increased 
in like proportion. Its ruinous effects can be 
detected on every hand. It has proven with 
men, according to that old proverb, "the 
thief, when put in their mouths, that steals 
their brains, ' ' and with the loss of their brains 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 51 

results the loss of their homes, their friends, 
their mental, moral and phj^sical manhood, 
leaving them the loathsome, disgusting, 
despised and undeserving outcasts of the 
American family. 

For all time has the moral tone of society 
been directed against intemperance, but still 
its evil results continue to increase in our 
midst, showing that we have as yet failed in 
the development of the proper remedy for this 
acknowdedged evil. 

With the free and independent enlighten- 
ment of the human family is developed a con- 
scientious belief of the individual's ability of 
self-control. This same independent spirit 
will naturally antagonize a movement directed 
to assume control of what is acknowledged his 
personal right, dictated to him through the 

desires of his nature. Consequently all efforts 
tending to prohibition have proven of little 



52 OF WHAT IS 

avail. Then, again, those who have under- 
taken to father these institutions of temper- 
ance reform, have, in a great majority, been 
those who have never learned through their 
own ])ersonal experience the influence of 
liquor upon the human temperament. They 
cannot full}- understand the change in the 
nature of a man outside of a saloon without 
liquor compared to the condition of the same 

man inside the saloon under the influence of 
liquor. 

Outside of a saloon, in any position of 
society, whether in the church, the fraternal 
hall, the political, social or business walks of 
life, after a person passes that period of 
honest, innocent childhood, they, through the 
force of policy and contact with our competi- 
tive business system, develop a tendency to 

patronize or show most consideration for those 
whom circumstances have placed in a position 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 53 

of wealth, or where it is po'^sible for them to 
advance their personal interests, creating that 
unapproachable and selfish reserve, so appall- 
ing to human nature. 

On the other hand, when a man steps into 
a saloon and imbibes sufficient liquor to loosen 
the true impulses of his nature, then all self- 
consideration and class distinction is thrown 
aside, and he then yields to a feeling of equal 
consideration for ever}^ being with whom lie 
comes in contact, regardless of color, position, 
creed or intelligence. In that condition, 
equally intoxicated, every difference will ad- 
just itself. This relaxation from the burdens 
of life and society seem to be reached by many 
through no other source than this destroying 
medium of liquor drinking. And often when 
there is lack of confidence in an undertaking, 
due to former fruitless effort, liquor furnishes 
the necessary propelling force to carry into 



54 OF WHAT IS 

execution and succeed, or, in case of failure, 
robs the venturer of that keen sense of the 
reality of a disappointment. 

The question is, is it possible to overcome 
this treacherous destroyer of manhood ? 

Yes, by first understanding the true in- 
centive to effort, equal as a stimulus to liquor. 
This incentive is a certain and satisfactory 
reward for a person's effort. 

Of utmost importance, insuring temper- 
ance, is a disposition on the part of the Ameri- 
can people to develop the happy feeling of con- 
tentment and satisfied ambition in realizing for 
honest industry a compensation meeting their 
requirements, insuring them against want, 
and a guarantee that American charity will 
respond to the help of those unable to help 
themselves, placing a valuation on every 
human life worthy of perpetuation. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 55 

Human love for preservation and perpetu- 
ation of human life and its comforts is the 
strongest desire of our nature. 

To take the place of saloons must be 
established institutions where men can meet 
each other licensed to experience a like feeling 
of equal consideration for every one with whom 
he comes in contact, as a member of a loving 
family feels for another. 

These conditions of peace, goodwill, tem- 
perance and national accord will come only 
when equal rights and human consideration is 
established through the medium of our national 
schools— when we are a nation of one tongue. 
As it is, we are a nation of mixed races, made 
up of people who have come to this country 
with fixed ideas and natures regarding even 
the use of intoxicating liquors. Until the in- 
fluence of these foreign-raised people are be- 
yond the boundary line of our land just so 



56 OF WHAT IS 

long will there be a lack of united understand- 
ing and action necessary to this feeling of 
equality and the restriction of intemperance. 
Just as the law setting aside our American 
day of rest has been swept to one side by these 
foreign-developed races, not willing to abide 
by our American Constitution, will any law, 
written or unwritten, be violated. That old- 
time feeling of quiet and rest of the Sabbath, 
so sacred to our forefathers, must not be 
broken by discord , and turned : nto a day of 
dissipation. 

Again the importance of sustaining the 
principles of Americanism, regardless of other 
discenting nationalities. With persistent, un- 
tiring and never-ceasing devotion to our 
American laws and land must our instructors 
continue their work of uniting every element 
coming in contact with our nation. 



UNCLE SAM THIN KING f 57 

As the Chiuese and Jews are held in 
sacred unity let the Americans stand by those 
who already are and will become members of 
our distinct race. Just as a father and 
mother understands, loves, appreciates and 
takes the precaution of instilling in the minds 
of their children the kind and unselfish con- 
sideration of one toward the other, just as 
careful should they be to keep constantly be- 
fore these young minds a love for their assimi- 
lating fellowman. 

These American parents and instructors 
must detect and study the means of the re- 
moval of every influence that tends to deny 
the highest attainment of the comforts and 
unity of the American family. 

Very often a man's pretense for drinking 
and seeking the saloon as a resort is an un- 
satisfactory condition of affairs in his home. 
The home of every father, mother, vson or 



58 OF WHAT IS 

daughter, who seeks, in preference to that 
home, the saloon, pleasure resort, or the 
street, is not what it should be. This un- 
natural desire may be due to the ignorance of 
the wife or mother. Her unfortunate igno- 
rance prevents her from doing those things 
which should make her home a place of rest, 
a refuge for her husband and children. Her 
ignorance prevents her from buying and pre- 
paring the kind of ft)od that will give proper 
nourishment, and satisfy the cravings of 
hunger. 

The husband will turn from his home 
table as he will from that of an unsavory 
restaurant with unsatisfied cravings to intox- 
cating stimulants, which seem to silence these 
longings. The majority of our immoderate 
drinkers, to-day, will acknowledge that their 
first use for stimulants was to create an appe- 
tite for the unsatisfactory food they were com- 



UNCLE SAM THINKING i 59 

pelled to partake of, either at home or the pub- 
lic feeding houses. 

Now, mothers, such home conditions you 
are responsible for. We must look to you for 
the remedy. 

Instead of instilling in the minds of your 
daughters the advisability of living inde- 
pendent of men ; that, in this age, men are 
responsible for women's misery ; that girls 
must fit themselves for any pursuit other than 
uniting with a man in founding a home of 
peace, love and happiness, let the mother, if 
competent, if not, secure the instruction of a 
woman who is, and teach these girls that their 
most important mission in life is to follow the 
dictates of nature, as becomes their civilized 
condition. Make them practical in every de- 
partment of their home requirements ; com- 
petent to exert an influence over her husband 
that no outside attraction can detract from. 



6o OF WHAT IS 

There is not a marriageable young man in 
this land, not contaminated with the evil de- 
sire of depraved associates, who, had he the 
confidence in the ability of a girl, suitable to 
his nature, to make of a home what it should 
be, who would not shrink from a life of in- 
difference, dissatisfaction, dissipation or self- 
destruction, and enter into a union with all 
the fervor of his nature, filling a position that 
would bring him and his children into recog- 
nition as progressive American citizens, be- 
yond the reach of squallor, discord, disease, 
degredation and destruction. 

Just as sure as a girl takes up the rela- 
tionship of marriage without a thorough un- 
derstanding of its requirements she must nec- 
essarily make of her home a place of discon- 
tent for her husband. 

Instead of a father and mother's ambition 
being merely to start their sons and daughters 



UNCLE SAM THIN KING f 6t 

in marriage with wealth equal to their ac- 
cumulation of a life-long work and economj^ 
let them equip them with their acquired 
knowledge, learned, perhaps, from bitter ex- 
perience, as to what will keep them united in 
harmony, love and happiness, through which 
nothing will come but devotion and prosperity. 

First for consideration should be a 
knowledge of the laws of health and hj^giene ; 
the importance of cleanliness, the beauty of 
neatness and culture, and the development of 
industry and energy necessary to make home 
what it should be, and life worth living as 
educated people. 

Parents, make of your daughters good 
cooks and good housekeepers ; enforce upon 
them the importance of understanding hov; to 
keep their famil}^ in a condition of good health 
and good spirits ; develop in them a disposi- 
tion of loving kindnCvSS, cheerfulness and con- 



62 OF WHAT IS 

tentment. Then you will see a change in the 
disposition of our American boys. They will 
have an incentive to abandon the resorts 
which are to-day the deadfalls of American 
manhood, making* worthless wrecks of those 
who should be the intellect and support of 
our nation. 

Let our parents, instead of crying out in 
condemnation against the youthful members 
of society who have entered the wrong path, 
bend their efforts to sta}-, support and make 
useful beings of these, who have the youthful 
strength and vigor to perform the purpose for 
which they were created. 

The downfall of every bo}^ or girl, born 
with the proper natural senses, can be attrib- 
uted to the carelessness of the older members 
of society, our parents, who have not, in tb.^'s 
period of their weakness, due to inexperience 
and lack of understanding of the serious con- 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 63 

sequences, stepped to the front when they 
should and saved them from their inevitable 
fate. For humanity's sake there must be no 
more inhuman sacrifices of blighted lives to 
be held up as examples for your own children. 

Parents must realize that they are, as 
authors of a child's existence, responsible for 
its destiny, and that thej^ must show every 
child, born of other parents, the same chari- 
table consideration that they would appreciate 
when extended in order and in time to save 
their own children from disgrace and possible 
destruction . 

Encourage every young person in their 
ambition. Help them to become thoroughly 
familiar with the things of nature and that 
which is necessary to their highest develop- 
ment and usefulness. Teach them that work- 
ing intelligently is the only means of accom- 
plishing this desired end. To be a success in 



64 OF WHAT IS 

life a person must be a master mechanic. To 
become one all it requires is an interest in the 
pursuit and proper application. We must not, 
in this enlightened age, content ourselves with 
being nierel}' the tools of another person, who 
is but equally endowed, to be used, worn out 
and finally cast upon the pile of refuse. 
As our individual work is finished let it stand 
as the highest attainment of skill to the pres- 
ent time, reflecting credit upon the workman, 
insuring a demand for his services. 

We are all naturally adapted to at least 
one pursuit that will place us in a superior 
position of recognition. We must detect that 
pursuit, and when once intalled it means to us 
a condition of contentment, in which discord, 
envy, false ambition and failure were never 
known to enter. 

The necessity of a public-school education 
to an apprentice is without question. It 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 65 

means for him recognition in the best society 
of our American people, which will elevate 
his vocation to a dignity t© which every class 
of honest toil is entitled. Education will en- 
able him to intelligently study, understand 
and accomplish results that are beyond the 
comprehension of an illiterate youth, conse- 
quently saving him years of fruitless work. 
Again, his early years at school save him from 
the evil consequences of working at a young 
and undeveloped period, which is responsible 
for the ungainliness and physical deformities 
so common with the mechanics of the * * old 
country," where their apprenticeship began 
while they were, we might say, iu their in- 
fancy. 



66 OF WHAT IS 



CHAPTER VIIL 



Chikf of all the demoralizing influences, 
*' the root of all evil " here in America, what 
has been the destro}- er of the peace of nation 
upon nation, the autbcr of misery to every 
free-born and enlightened being, is our un- 
natural, but cultivated evil, avaric:^, de- 
fined by Webster thus : 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 67 

AVARICIOUS — Actuated by avarice ; greedy of gain; 
immoderately desirous of accumu- 
lating property. 

Synonymous — Avaricious^ covetous, parsimonious^ 
penurious, yniserly^ niggardly. The 
avaricious eagerly desire wealth with 
a view to hoard it. The covetous 
grasp after it at the expense of 
others, though not of necessity with 
a design to save, since a man may 
be covetous and yet a spendthrift. 
The penurious^ parsimonious and 
m,iserly save money by disgraceful 
self-denial, and the niggardly by 
meanness in their dealing with 
others. We speak of persons as 
covetous in getting, avaricious in 
retaining, parsim-onious in expend- 
ing, penuriotis or miserly in modes 
of living, niggardly in dispensing. 

This greed, for gain drives from us all the 
pleasant impulses of our nature. Even the 
joys and honesty of youth are consumed by 
this evil of destruction. The beauties of 
nature, the love of home, sacredness of virtue, 



68 OF WHAT IS 

the preservation of health, honor ; in fact, 
everything honest and true to us is buried in 
oblivion before this insane, inhuman destrojxr. 
As Americans we must beware. Our 
fathers, mothers and instructors must compre- 
hend the certain consequences of avaricious- 
ness, which is destroying our love one for an- 
other, and our country. It is breaking up 
homes and scattering children to the ends of 
the earth, there to either go down to destruc- 
tion, discouraged, in a vain endeavor to ride 
in a "golden chariot" over the remains of 
hapless humanity, or bide the welcomed news 
of the death of those parents who brought 
them into this struggling existence, that, 
through their hoarded wealth, th-y can be re- 
leased from their instilled belief of privation, 

disgrace and earthly misery. 

Fathers and mothers of America, stop and 

consider the truth and existence of this con- 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 69 

dition. As fathers and mothers consider 
what you owe your children, what your de- 
sires are relative to their destiny. Protect, 
support, educate and divide with them just as 
long as they are dependent on you, and then, 
by the laws of love and nature, you can place 
your dependence on them, to be protected, 
loved and cared for when the infirmaties of 
old age are upon you, making your life's 
work a blessing to the past, the present and 

future generations. 

How many fathers and mothers in this 

land of our's close their eyes in everlasting 

sleep their last anxious thoughts being, " If I 

only knew the whereabouts and welfare of my 

darling child ? Has he crossed the dark and 

mysterious river of death, or do I leave him 

in the sunlit land of the living ? ' ' 

Parents, when your final harvest is at 

hand you will " reap what you have sown." 



70 OF WHAT IS 

If your life*s ambition has been only that of 
avariciousness, you will have only the fruits 
of avarice with you when death knocks at your 
door. On the other hand, if your life's work 
and ambition has been to love, protect, sup- 
port, aid and content yourself with the bless- 
ings of nature, your home and your children, 
then, when the final summons come, you will 
be surrounded by love, and there will be no 
anxiety relative to the ' ' whereabouts of your 
darling child." He will be at your bedside, a 
living example of devotion and affection, and 
not a soulless deserter of his home and parents, 
whose covetous nature will respond only to 

the money or property hoarded by the avari- 
cious parent. 

These same natural and simple laws of 

devotion, necessary to keep together father, 
mother, sons and daughters, will keep to- 
gether with the same consistent devotion our 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 71 

entire family of Americans. And when we 
adopt understandingly as our national motto, 
** To live, and to let live 1" and see to its en- 
forcement, then we will fulfill the mission of 
our lives in this land of equal rights. 

As an author writes, the disposition nec- 
essary to grow rich is **To trust nobody, to 
befriend none, to get everything and save all 
you get, to stint yourself and everybody be- 
longing to you, to be the friend of no man, to 
heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent, to 
be mean, miserable and despised for the best 
part of your lives ; and riches will come to you 
just as sure as disease and disappointment. 
And when pretty near enough wealth is col- 
lected by a disregard of human heart, at the 
expense of every enjoyment, death comes to 
finish the work. The body is buried in a hole, 
the heirs dance over it, and its spirit has 
gone , where ?*' 



72 OF WHAT IS 



CHAPTER XX. 



CoNTHNDiNG as the American people are 
at the present time with different creeds, 
which are religiously antagonistic to the pre- 
dominating power of our thorough American 
class, it is our dut}^ to unite and adopt the 
same consistent tactics resorted to by these 
un-American creeds, surrendering no portion 
of our constitutional rights or territory. 

Principal among these foreign-born creeds, 
who have made the most inroads into our ter- 
ritory, industries, mercantile pursuits, national 

finances and peaceful vocations, are the race 
of Jews. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 78 

Differing in physical strength and courage 
from other nationalities, they have peaceabl}', 
patiently and unnoticed crept into our Ameri- 
can-entitled stronghold of financial wealth, 
and are fast barricading the doors of ease and 
luxury to the legitimate heirs of our fore- 
fathers, who braved the terrible results of 
devastating warfare to deliver to this new 
race of Americans a land upon which they 
could develop and found a nation, united on 
consideration of human equality, which would 
be intellectually, scientifically and physically 
the peer of all ages past. 

In the Hebrew Institute, on Eighth ave- 
nue, New York City, Editor Solomon, of the 
Hebrew Standard, said in behalf of the rela- 
tionship between the Hebrews and the politi- 
cal party they were to support : 



74 OF WHAT IS 

"Whether we view it as a mere incident, or as a 
dispensation of Providence, it is a fact that the same 
year that witnessed the expulsion of six thousand 
Jews from vSpain, witnessed the discovery of America. 
This country was designed as a home for the 
oppressed." 
«««••* •« 

• • Who is it who arrests a man for selling a three- 
cent collar button on Sunday ? Who is it who pre- 
vents you from drinking a glass of beer on Sunday ? 
It is the Republicans !" 

Americans, what does the above signify ? 
Does it not reveal the far-seeing and tenacious 
purpose of the Hebrew race to eventually 
wrest from us our emblem of America, carica- 
tured in "Uncle Sam," the embodiment of 
originality, derived from freedom, independ- 
ence and human acknowledgement of the 
equality of man ? 

This Hebrew advocate, laying at the 
door of the Republican party, American as it 
is, the responsibility of the restriction of even 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 75 

their violation of our American Sunday law, 
shows conclusively that the Jews are not in 
accord with our American control. 

According to our American consideration 
of what constitutes an American, entitled to 
American citizenship and protection, as de- 
scribed in a previous chapter, it is our duty to 

turn our attention to the progress of this race 
of Jews in America. 

Just as we have suppressed the dissenting 
elements of our laws and land, such as the 
creed of polygamy, the condition of slavery, 
secessionism, and the influx of the un-Ameri- 
can Chinese, just as urgent is the necessity of 
our uniting in self-protection against this 
class, who are usurping our business indus- 
tries, resources and Avealth, yet denying co- 
operation and assimilation with us as gentiles, 

who are alone eligible to American classifica- 
tion. 



76 OF WHAT IS 

Now, Americans, while we are the recog- 
nized power in this land, shall we retain it ? 
Shall America be the stronghold of the Ameri- 
cans, or shall it be the stronghold of the Jews ? 

Turn back to the pages of your history, 
note in ages past the enthronement and the 
dethronement of this race of Hebrews, cling- 
ing with unflinching tenacity to their sect. 
Look to Russia's desperate measures at the 
present time. Beware of the influx of these 
Russian exiles, bound by the sacred laws of 
religion to stand aloof from intermingling with 
any other race in existence. 

Americans, we cannot become Jews, and 
Jews refuse to become Americans. 

Their pure blood, their sacred and en- 
forced honor toward each other, their wealth, 
their business integrity and co-operation, their 
early marriages and domestic relationship is 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 77 

fast filling their ranks here in this land of 
Americans. 

Beware of this element, which is weaken- 
ing 3^our band of unionism. 

Stretch out your hand to the foreigner 
only who is to pool issues with, add to your 
numbers and strengthen your mighty nation. 
Barricade America to every faction tending to 
competition or conflict, disturbing the peace, 
prosperity and unity, the outgrowth of sus- 
taining the principles of our American Consti- 
tution and By-Laws. 

To-day, in America, these Jews live, com- 
bine and monopolize without concern, in con- 
sideration of their vast wealth, of ever being 
checked in their advancement, leading to the 
final control of what is now, and should be 
forever the ' * land of the free and the home of 
the brave." 



78 OF WHAT IS 

This mistaken faith in the power of 

wealth has and ever will go down before a 

united feeling of justice, inspired by the reali- 
zation of self-protection and preservation. 

For example, just as the Republican party 
has been swept from its position, ruling the 
American universe, notwithstanding its ac- 
knowledged wealth, the occupation of the 
nation's strongholds and fortifications, from 
the Presidential Chair to the most insignifi- 
cant political office, by means of our free and 
all-powerful instrument, "the American bal- 
lot, " is it possible for us to enforce the princi- 
ples of Americanism in America. 

In every department of business can be 
detected the superior understanding and sys- 
tematic co-operation of the Jews, whose mar- 
velous ventures and monumental stores, stand 
erected to awe the undertakings of the Ameri- 
can gentile. These same institutions are 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 79 

supported by us, while we allow our own to 
totter and fall, burying beneath them that 
confidence and American fairness, independ- 
ence and energy, necessary to the excellence 
of our American institutions and people. 

Now, Americans, do not allow yourselves 
to degenerate into a class of discouraged, dis- 
heartened, weak and subordinate beings, 
eventually to either fall the victims of a better- 
united faction, or of disease and disorder, but 
unite in co-operation with those who are to 
become members of your own family, stand- 
ing shoulder to shoulder in time of peace and 
prosperity as you have stood unflinching in 

time of cruel and devastating warfare, extend- 
ing to each other the hand of an equal, regard- 
less of wealth or sectionalism. 

As the Jews will not conform to our 

national consideration of equality, brought 

about by the intermingling of the races in 



8o OF WHAT JS 

America, making- of their desirable class those 
to act in unity with us, we have, in order to 
sustain our own class, but the one recourse, 
which is to adopt their successful tactics of 
wresting from them what they are taking 
from us. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING9 81 



CHAPTER X. 



During the short life of our republic the 
negro problem has proven one which the in- 
tellect of our most intelligent race has, appar- 
ently, been unable to solve. 

Since the liberation of the negro from the 
bondage of slavery, from time to time, move- 
ments have been inaugurated with an object 
of segregating the blacks from the whites, 
prompted through the conception of the laws 
of nature and the preservation of our white 
race. 



82 OF WHAT IS 

Experience has taught us that the uniting- 
of the two races means the absorption of the 
whites, clearly demonstrating the predomi- 
nating power of the black nature. This fact 
being so familiar to us as an intelligent class, 
whose ambition, as the American people, is to 
preserve our individual species, we have no 
pretense for speculation as to what action 
should be taken. Nature solves it for us, as 
she does all other issues pertaining to her 
laws, demonstrating clearly what is necessary 
for the preservation of our color. 

The white people of America demon- 
strated thoroughly their sacred consideration 

for humanity in laying down four hundred 

thousand of their invaluable lives and millions 

upon millions of dollars in the destruction of 

the institution of American slavery, for which 

they will have the undying gratitude of the 



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UNCLE SAM THINKING t 83 

colored man, as he is now placed on a free and 

intelligent basis, enabling them to redeem 

their entire race from a condition of barbarism, 

as exists with them outside of American 
territory. 

The result of that war and these subse- 
quent years of peaceful condition and con- 
sideration for human equality has established 
between the two races a confidence that should 
lead to a peaceable and just solution, of equal 
importance to both white and colored people. 

Freedom and education develops in the 

black man the same high standard of science 

and intellect as is developed in the white man. 

Nature endows them with the same physical 
perfection. 

What means to us the attainment of our 

highest standard of intellectual, physical and 

moral perfection, as a white race, is, as nature 

demands, total exclusion of the negro blood. 



84 OF WHAT IS 

To them as a progressive black race, of 
equal intellect and physical development, the 
exclusion of white blood is necessary. 

Now, the question seems simple enough 

for the broad-minded intellects of both the 
whites and the blacks. The peace and future 

welfare of both depend upon it. There is. no 

requirement for the services or suggestions of 

philanthropic enthusiasts, inspired by senti- 

mentalit}^ or economy. We must avoid a 

"race war" of extermination in our midst and 

provide for separate territory, in ancestral 

Africa, or elsewhere, where the negro will be 

enabled to develop an independent African 
nation of equality. 

In America to-day there are hundreds of 

thousands of colored men and women, equally 

intelligent, humane and in sympathy with. 

their natural-born brethren, to take up the 



UNCLE SAM THINKINGf 85 

work of reorganizing, elevating and shaping 
the proper destiny of their race. It means to 
them, through the co-operation of the whites, 
a much less undertaking than we, as white, 
educated Americans, have already assumed in 
educating and providing means of support for 
the millions upon millions of low, degraded, 
neglected and matured unfortunate beings 
shipped here from foreign countries, where 
their condition was vastly worse than that of 
the American slave. 

The more enlightend becomes the condi- 
tion of the negro the stronger will be his sense 
of gratitude for the American people and their 
wisdom. 

The sympathies of the people of America, 
both white and black, have been appealed to 
in behalf of the few American negroes en- 
deavoring to found the Republic of Liberia, 



86 OF WHAT IS 

the little nation on the west coast of Africa. 
This experiment of the American Colonization 
Society has undoubtedly been very discourag- 
ing, owing to the meagre knowledge they had 
relative to the resources and climatic condi- 
tions of that country, as suitable to the physi- 
cal condition of the negro. Besides, many 
dishonest practices have been more or less re- 
sponsible for the possible defeat of success, 
subjecting the colonists to desperate and de- 
structive conditions, such as pioneers of civili- 
zation have and ever will be subjected to. 

It is within the possibility of American 
intelligence, energy, determinat on and wealth 
to locate, investigate and secure a territory 
where the Afi ican race can reach an elevation 
to which they are entitled, saving them, as 

well as the American people, the disturbances 
that will naturally arise in event of their re- 
maining and increasing in our midst. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING? 87 

The efforts of a few men of our present 
generation with the characteristics of Bushrod 
Washington, Charles Carroll, James Madison 
and Henry Claj- , who were at one time presi- 
dents of the American Colonization Society, 
would reduce this race problem to a practical 
solution in short order. 



88 OF WHA'l IS 



CHAPTER XL 



ThK decisive action taken by our country 
on the question of Chinese restriction has 
been an example of the wisdom shown not 
only in the protection of the positions of 
domestic help, labor in our outside fields, 
factories, canneries, foundries, and many other 
vocations of lucrative employment, but has 
possibly prevented contamination with the 
Dlood of this inferior race. 

The very same evils and disturbances of 
society developed in America through this 



UNCLE SAM THINKINGf ^ 

Mongolian race will come to us with the in- 
troduction of the Japanese. The^^ will seek 
the very same positions the Chinese have been 
compelled to vacate, sounding the same death - 
knell to the ambition of the industrial classes 
of our American people, lowering both the 
dignity of work and its compensation, incon- 
sistent with the welfare of our free-born 
Americans. 

Then again, the Japanese race concede 

the superiority mentally and physically of 

our white American race, developed through 

the intermingling of the blood of all white 

nations and, in consequence, are tending not 

only to our American education and customs 

but also to inter-marrying with our white 

race, which will, owing to their dwarfed 

stature, their Mongolian features and copper 
color, taint our American blood, with a most 
undesirable element. 



90 OF WHAT IS 

Now, Americans, our physical condition 
is of the utmost importance to us. As it is 
we have numberless defects to eradicate, the 
result of a total disregard of physical strength 
and beauty. Our American system of de- 
velopment of the intellect regardless of a like 
physical perfection is a crime against nature, 
and will lead to the discouragement of the 
undertakings of the American people and to 
their deterioration and destruction. 

Whenever the American press records the 
marriage of an American man or woman to 
one of the Mongolian race, regardless of their 
intelligence or rank, how our sense of Ameri- 
can refinement is shocked. With a repugnant 

shudder we instantly consign this member, 

whom we consider utterly void of all sense of 

appreciation of our white American family, to 

the consuming influence of the Mongolian 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 91 

blood, thereby saving our race from contam- 
ination through this unnatural alliance. 
Such should be our American consideration 
and protection for our nation, and fortunate 
for both our physical and moral welfare is the 
tact that nature responds as she does against 
the sacrifice of these members of our society 
who will violate our laws of self-protection 
and progress. 

As Americans our first consideration is 
due to those of our kind. To lift our Ameri- 
can youth from conditions unbecoming our 
sense of descency it is the natural duty of our 
American missionaries to devote their time, 
efforts, love and ambition to bettering the 

condition of the many unfortunate beings 

living neglected within the boundary lines of 

our own country, wfio can be restored to 

a respectable and valued position in society. 



92 OF WHAT IS 

To-day thousands of our fairest sons and 
daughters of America are devoting their time, 
wealth and refined natures exclusively to 
Christianizing and elevating those whom they 
deem the "unfortunate heathens" of other 
races and lands. Note the untiring devotion 
of those who are sustaining the Chinese mis- 
sions in our midst. According to the laws of 
the Chinese Empire and the laws of the United 
States the unity of these two races is posi- 
tively prohibited. Consequently, when our 
refined, intelligent and Christian people vol- 
unteer their charity for the education and 
advancement of this race in America, who are 
here for the one purpose of carrying to their 
own land such spoils as fall into their hands, 
they are committing a grievous wrong to 
the members of their own nation. 



UNCLE SAM THINKING f 93 

Our American girls and mothers, who are 
devoting their time to the education of the 
Chinese, must realize that this neat, intelli- 
gent and gentlemanly Chinese youth, their 
ideal, developed through the influence of their 
refined natures, constant association and teach- 
ing, must, sooner or later, return to his own 
land, carrying with him that which belongs, 
by all the sacred laws of love and humanity, 
to your own children. 

There is not a white boy in America, 
American at heart, who does not watch your 
devotion to these aliens with a jealous eye 
and with earnest longings for that same influ- 
ence and encouragement, which would make 

of them clean, descent, gentlemanly and de- 
voted promoters of virtue, home and happiness. 
American charity's first consideration is 
our American field and subjects, whose life- 



94 OF WHAT IS 

blood is to develop and perpetuate our highest 

order of humanity. 

With the same self-sacrificing, unflinch- 
ing and steadfast purpose of the sectarian mis- 
sionary, who goes to the wilds of foreign 
countries intent upon adding to the number 
of his religious sect, we must, as Americans, 
enlist the same religious zeal in uniting our 
American race, void of contention, religious 
or otherwise. Then will we serve the best 
interest of our fellowman, our country and 
our Creator. 



UNCLE SAM THINKINGt 95 



CHAPTER XII. 



In concIvUding this little book, the first 
attempt of the writer to preserve these con- 
clusions, derived at through observation, it 
is his purpose to arouse the minds of the 
3'oung members of American society to the 
necessity of accepting only such conclusions 
relative to the interests of our people and 
our government as they have personally in- 
vestigated, thereby developing their practical 
abilities, which is the only means of making 
one self-dependent and successful. Young 



96 07- WHAT IS 

American people, of education and ctdture, 
must value practical preparation for life in 
preference to the money that will purchase 
advantages, as the loss of money or its value 
leaves the unfortunate and those dependent 
upon him without means of support to be- 
come slave-like subordinates to those who 
do understand the practical laws of society 
and nature. 



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Thk author solicits correspondence from 
the young minds of America, inspired by 
the few ideas he has embodied in this little 
book. Its wide margins are for notes while 
reading. Those notes will be reproduced in 
an extensive edition, under cover of this title 
page, if mailed to 

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